Latest / Early Edition with Ryan Bridge / Full Show Podcast: 19 August 2026
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- 0:00Speaker 1: The issues, the interviews and the inside Ryan Bridge on
- 0:05Speaker 1: early edition with Spark for Business Technology that keeps business
- 0:09Speaker 1: moving news talks.
- 0:10Speaker 2: There'd be a very good.
- 0:11Speaker 3: Morning, Welcome to you Wednesday, six minutes after five employers
- 0:14Speaker 3: are worried about us having fewer babies. We'll talk about that.
- 0:16Speaker 3: Top of the hour. We'll go to the UK the
- 0:18Speaker 3: Russian drone situation. We've got global very trade auction results
- 0:21Speaker 3: for you this morning. They're up. The bond markets are
- 0:23Speaker 3: selling off, and we have a former thief for Boss
- 0:26Speaker 3: on whether Infantino should even be allowed to stay on
- 0:29Speaker 3: as president.
- 0:32Speaker 4: The agenda this Wednesday, the nightd ind of August.
- 0:34Speaker 3: Moscow is angry at the UK. British made drones are
- 0:38Speaker 3: being used to hit inside Russia. He Andy Burnham.
- 0:42Speaker 5: We are providing support so that Ukraine can defend itself
- 0:47Speaker 5: and that's been the British position all the way through
- 0:50Speaker 5: this conflict. We are not fair weather friends. We will
- 0:53Speaker 5: be there in Ukraine's hour of need.
- 0:55Speaker 3: And the Kremlin says there will be consequences.
- 0:57Speaker 6: In the United Kingdom. It says is acting as an
- 0:59Speaker 6: accompany some coperpetrator of the bloody crimes and terrorist attacks
- 1:04Speaker 6: committed by Ukrainian neo nazis seeking to contend Russia and
- 1:08Speaker 6: to infect maximum damage on it by proxy.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Okay, now, staying with Andy Burnham. Yesterday we told you
- 1:14Speaker 3: about the text messages that he was sending who he
- 1:16Speaker 3: thought was Trump's chief of Staff, Susie Wilds, but was
- 1:19Speaker 3: actually some rando. He says, no, no, not embarrassed about that.
- 1:22Speaker 5: There was a minimal exchange, nothing of consequence. And actually
- 1:27Speaker 5: quickly I realized that this needed to be reported, and
- 1:30Speaker 5: I did so, so I hundled it in the right way.
- 1:34Speaker 3: Right, let's go to the US. Remember the Big Meta trial.
- 1:37Speaker 3: This is the one where it's been accused of designing
- 1:39Speaker 3: Facebook specifically and Instagram to be addictive to kids. Well,
- 1:44Speaker 3: it kicks off today. Four US states are seeking billions
- 1:48Speaker 3: in a case involving twenty nine states over alleged child
- 1:52Speaker 3: privacy breaches.
- 1:53Speaker 7: Their strategy so far has really felt like one of
- 1:56Speaker 7: playing defense.
- 1:57Speaker 2: Right.
- 1:57Speaker 7: They're not really coming out with an unified vision around
- 2:01Speaker 7: how how they maybe want to tackle a lot of
- 2:03Speaker 7: these concerns that continue mounting those in the US and globally.
- 2:07Speaker 7: It seems like they're more just kind of coming out
- 2:09Speaker 7: with piecemeal I would say fix this to some of
- 2:11Speaker 7: these issues, but really God earnestly leaning in and trying
- 2:15Speaker 7: to find.
- 2:15Speaker 3: A way for Meter of course, denies all of this
- 2:17Speaker 3: if they lose potentially one point four trillion.
- 2:22Speaker 1: Before the news breaks. Hear it first, Ryan Bridge on
- 2:26Speaker 1: early edition with spark for business technology that keeps business
- 2:30Speaker 1: moving news talks.
- 2:31Speaker 3: That'd be eight minutes after five nine two ninety two
- 2:34Speaker 3: is the number to text. Stocks that are in the
- 2:35Speaker 3: red this morning, Missus Wall Street. Borrowing costs around the
- 2:39Speaker 3: world are heading multi years high. We touched on the high.
- 2:42Speaker 3: We touched on it yesterday. A lot of the advanced
- 2:44Speaker 3: economies in the world. The bond yields are going up.
- 2:49Speaker 3: The bond sell off is happening, and a lot of
- 2:52Speaker 3: it has to do with Sure, there's a lot of debt.
- 2:54Speaker 3: Sure there's aging population, Sure there's a war on that
- 2:58Speaker 3: there's a lot of worries for investors. But also there's
- 3:00Speaker 3: a lot of it to do with AI spending and
- 3:02Speaker 3: the fact that these big AI companies are issuing their
- 3:06Speaker 3: own bonds and they're increasingly longer term, and that is
- 3:10Speaker 3: now competing with the government ones. We'll talk about that
- 3:12Speaker 3: a little later in the program. But to South Korea.
- 3:15Speaker 3: I find this endlessly fascinating what's going on here because Trump,
- 3:19Speaker 3: you know, we told you yesterday. Trump's come out and said, oh, well,
- 3:22Speaker 3: these military drills that we're doing this week, which they
- 3:24Speaker 3: do regularly, we're just not going to go as hard
- 3:27Speaker 3: as what we would have gone, what we used to go.
- 3:29Speaker 3: And you think, okay, well, that's unusual until you learn
- 3:32Speaker 3: about the history of the drills and their significance to
- 3:36Speaker 3: the region. So you know how when North and South
- 3:38Speaker 3: Korea stopped fighting, it was an armistice rather than a
- 3:41Speaker 3: peace treaty in nineteen fifty three, so they're essentially still
- 3:44Speaker 3: at war North and South Korea. US troops have been
- 3:48Speaker 3: stationed in South Korea ever since then. In fact, the
- 3:51Speaker 3: biggest US base outside of America is in South Korea.
- 3:55Speaker 3: It's called Camp Humphreys. So they have strong ties, but
- 3:59Speaker 3: also in wartime they have a thing called opcon. Now
- 4:04Speaker 3: opcon lets the Americans dictate what South Korean forces do
- 4:11Speaker 3: during wartime, they have operational control. Isn't that fascinating? And
- 4:16Speaker 3: so there's a new guy in Channwall. He's been there
- 4:17Speaker 3: for years now, but the President Lee, he's been trying
- 4:20Speaker 3: to just unshackle them from the Americans and say, hey,
- 4:24Speaker 3: we want to be a bit more independent these and
- 4:26Speaker 3: Trump doesn't obviously want that because well, North Korea. What's
- 4:30Speaker 3: next to North Korea? China. So what these drills are
- 4:34Speaker 3: apparently was the final sort of tests, the final drill
- 4:38Speaker 3: joint drill before a handover, and Trump is now saying
- 4:43Speaker 3: We're not going to do the drills quite in the
- 4:45Speaker 3: same way you thought we were so very interesting. Eleven
- 4:48Speaker 3: minutes half to five, Brian, and we'll talk about FIFA
- 4:52Speaker 3: Infantino and whether he should even be eligible to be
- 4:55Speaker 3: the president. Next news talks had been.
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- 5:13Speaker 3: Global Davery Trade auctions out time is thirteen minutes after five,
- 5:16Speaker 3: and it's good news in the sense that it's up
- 5:18Speaker 3: to two point three percent. And I can tell you
- 5:21Speaker 3: the ones we really care about. Skim milk powder up
- 5:23Speaker 3: seven point six percent, that significant whole milk powder up
- 5:25Speaker 3: three percent. Remember it was largely flat last auction. Before that,
- 5:29Speaker 3: it was up slightly, and before that it was down, down, down,
- 5:32Speaker 3: the previous three to four auctions going back to June.
- 5:35Speaker 3: So that is a relatively well it's better than down,
- 5:39Speaker 3: isn't it. It's fitty enough to five Bryan Bridge, Jefentino.
- 5:43Speaker 3: This is FIFA getting a bit of utu, getting a
- 5:45Speaker 3: bit of retribution. FIFA has sacked senior official Kevin Lamour
- 5:49Speaker 3: after he criticized Infantino's plan to sell part of the
- 5:52Speaker 3: World Cup to investors, which well, no one really liked
- 5:55Speaker 3: now being dropped, but Lamour has accused him Fantino of
- 5:58Speaker 3: lacking openness and also intimidating staff. Comes as Scotland with
- 6:03Speaker 3: draws its support alongside you, Waifer Asia, I mean you
- 6:07Speaker 3: name them, they're not supporting it. Miguil Maduro is former
- 6:10Speaker 3: chair of FIFA's Governance Committee, was brought in back in
- 6:14Speaker 3: twenty fifteen to clean things up, and he joins me
- 6:18Speaker 3: live Miguil, good morning, Good morning. The question is whether
- 6:22Speaker 3: Infantino should even be eligible to run for president again?
- 6:25Speaker 3: Should he? He shouldn't.
- 6:29Speaker 8: I think it's rather clear in Article thirty three, paragraphed
- 6:34Speaker 8: two of the FIFA Status that no president can serve
- 6:38Speaker 8: more than three terms of office. He's running for his
- 6:41Speaker 8: fourth office, so I think that makes it tandidly clear
- 6:44Speaker 8: that he should be allowed to run again.
- 6:46Speaker 3: And he's trying to get by on a technicality, right,
- 6:49Speaker 3: He's saying his first term was only two years, and
- 6:52Speaker 3: you're meant to have three four year terms. Therefore he's
- 6:56Speaker 3: short and he's due another one.
- 6:59Speaker 8: Yes, that is what is invoking. But there is no
- 7:02Speaker 8: basis in the text of the rule or the purpose
- 7:05Speaker 8: of the rule for that. The text of the rule
- 7:07Speaker 8: makes no distinguish, no distinction between whether the terms take
- 7:13Speaker 8: four years or three years. It also doesn't distinguish whether
- 7:17Speaker 8: it was elected. The president is elected in an extraordinary
- 7:20Speaker 8: ordinary Congress, So there's no textual basis on the rule
- 7:23Speaker 8: to make such a distinction. But curtain more and perhaps
- 7:27Speaker 8: even more importantly, it clearly goes against the spirit of
- 7:30Speaker 8: the rule. When the rule was adopted in twenty sixteen,
- 7:33Speaker 8: when they were trying to reform FIFA already then it
- 7:39Speaker 8: was clear the objective was not to allow presidents to
- 7:42Speaker 8: be present for more than twenty twelve years, so not
- 7:45Speaker 8: to allow people to be present for as long as
- 7:48Speaker 8: the other Lange I've been president or platter, I've been
- 7:51Speaker 8: pleasure president, and if I continues allowed to run again,
- 7:55Speaker 8: it will be present longer than Blad. So it clearly
- 7:58Speaker 8: goes against what was the spirit of the rule itself.
- 8:01Speaker 3: Miguel, you were born in twenty fifteen as part of
- 8:04Speaker 3: a push to clean it up, to get rid of
- 8:06Speaker 3: the corruption within FIFA. What's Infantino like? We hear a
- 8:11Speaker 3: lot about him. What's he like? Well?
- 8:14Speaker 8: I as the chair of an independent committee, it wasn't
- 8:18Speaker 8: important to me not to have a very close personal
- 8:21Speaker 8: relationship with him, So my relation with him was mostly institutional.
- 8:25Speaker 8: But if someone that gets into the room and he
- 8:27Speaker 8: sees is an odd mixed step, it's in someone that
- 8:31Speaker 8: is you see, it's shy, but at the same time
- 8:34Speaker 8: wants very much to please everyone in the room. But
- 8:37Speaker 8: I think above all the problem, and for me this
- 8:40Speaker 8: is important, is not Infantino himself in continue should leave.
- 8:44Speaker 8: He should not be allowed to run again, as I said,
- 8:47Speaker 8: even because the rules determined that. But FIFA has much
- 8:51Speaker 8: deeper and structural problems. If we simply replace Inventino without
- 8:55Speaker 8: changing the governance of FIFA, we will end up having
- 9:00Speaker 8: someone else that will be like Inventino or even worse.
- 9:03Speaker 3: You've described it as a political cartel with no scrutiny.
- 9:08Speaker 8: Yes, so basically FIFA claims to represent it different stakeholders
- 9:14Speaker 8: of football, but in fact it doesn't. Is dominated by
- 9:17Speaker 8: a crotal of people of insiders that select who comes
- 9:22Speaker 8: after them to a large extent, where many categories of
- 9:26Speaker 8: stakeholders people related to football are not represented or not
- 9:30Speaker 8: properly represented, from women to supporters, for example. And in
- 9:34Speaker 8: addition to that is then not subject to any effective mechanism,
- 9:39Speaker 8: subjects and balances and independent accountability. So these two things
- 9:45Speaker 8: make it severely flawed in governance terms.
- 9:49Speaker 3: It sounds like the Kremlin.
- 9:52Speaker 8: It sounds like any authoritarian regime with a high degree
- 9:56Speaker 8: of concentration of power that is, moreover, not subject to
- 10:00Speaker 8: any formal accountability.
- 10:02Speaker 3: All right mcguil, thank you for that. Migail Maduro, former
- 10:04Speaker 3: chare of FIFA's Governance Committee. Time is eighteen minutes after
- 10:08Speaker 3: five bread. Fascinating, isn't it. Ryan Lowell Infantano was the
- 10:12Speaker 3: guy they brought into clean fiver up power corrupts New
- 10:16Speaker 3: Zealand Football, says Nathan, being the exception and taking the
- 10:19Speaker 3: long New Zealand tradition of requesting an independent review instead
- 10:22Speaker 3: of holding a bona fide stance. Quite right, very quickly
- 10:26Speaker 3: for you, the number of births. We're going to talk
- 10:28Speaker 3: to employers manufacturers about this because employers are worried about
- 10:32Speaker 3: how many babies we're having, or how many babies we're
- 10:34Speaker 3: not having. Estimated resident population numbers out yesterday five point
- 10:39Speaker 3: three million. That's up point seven in a year. If
- 10:42Speaker 3: you look at birth's, well, we're not quite where we
- 10:46Speaker 3: need to be. They're down two point one percent in
- 10:50Speaker 3: the under five year old age group for the June
- 10:52Speaker 3: twenty sixth quarter, so we're not having as many babies.
- 10:56Speaker 3: Smallest annual natural growth when birth since the nineteen forties.
- 11:02Speaker 3: EMA's worried. Will talk to them before six nineteen After
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- 11:24Speaker 3: Five twenty one News Talks ZB. I see that Mercury
- 11:27Speaker 3: is done going down the same road that Contact died.
- 11:29Speaker 3: Last week. I spoke to the Contact boss last week
- 11:31Speaker 3: might fuge about what they're going to do with power
- 11:33Speaker 3: prices and they said it'll be at all below the
- 11:36Speaker 3: rate of inflation I at or below four percent. And
- 11:39Speaker 3: after their result yesterday, Mercury is saying the same thing. Right,
- 11:43Speaker 3: if you've got overdue court fines, maybe take the bus
- 11:46Speaker 3: to work Today. Every single bailiff in the country is
- 11:49Speaker 3: going to spend their days scanning plates of parked cars
- 11:52Speaker 3: to find out who owes money to the Ministry of Justice.
- 11:55Speaker 3: This is a real thing. They've put a press release
- 11:56Speaker 3: out about it. If you're overdue, expect to get your
- 11:59Speaker 3: vehicle clamped or even toad and sold. Peter Buckley is
- 12:02Speaker 3: independent victims advocate with me this morning. Clear, good morning,
- 12:06Speaker 3: Good morning, Ryan. Is this a good idea. Is this
- 12:08Speaker 3: going to get us the money that we need to
- 12:10Speaker 3: pay the victims?
- 12:12Speaker 9: No, not even remotely. We've got around about five hundred
- 12:16Speaker 9: million you will take outstanding, and this isn't going to
- 12:21Speaker 9: bring in the money to the victims. It's probably going
- 12:24Speaker 9: to bring in maybe some money from fines, but most
- 12:27Speaker 9: of your smart criminals now don't have their cars registered
- 12:30Speaker 9: in their own names. This isn't the first time the
- 12:32Speaker 9: government has done this, And so if you're going to
- 12:37Speaker 9: do this kind of thing, certainly a you don't advertise
- 12:39Speaker 9: it and be remember that actually you're not going to
- 12:43Speaker 9: capture what you think you're going to capture, because smart
- 12:45Speaker 9: people don't register their cars and their own names anymore.
- 12:49Speaker 3: The government reckons that they have done I mean, it's
- 12:52Speaker 3: a good point. Government reckons that they've done their homework.
- 12:54Speaker 3: They reckon last time they did this with some technology,
- 12:57Speaker 3: they've got four million in fines and reparations returned.
- 13:01Speaker 9: So on five hundred million dollars is four million dollar
- 13:04Speaker 9: return I suppose isn't too bad, not quite one percent.
- 13:09Speaker 3: But what are they time? What do they do clear?
- 13:12Speaker 3: What's what's your idea?
- 13:14Speaker 9: I still think that there's avenues that they can be
- 13:17Speaker 9: exploring that are along the lines of electronic checking, you know,
- 13:22Speaker 9: getting into their bank accounts and tapping benefits and things
- 13:26Speaker 9: like that, that they're not they're not using those anywhere
- 13:30Speaker 9: near frequently enough. And you've got to remember that of
- 13:34Speaker 9: this five hundred million, only one hundred of it is
- 13:36Speaker 9: actually owed to victims directly, And of course we would
- 13:40Speaker 9: love to see that one hundred million dollars come back
- 13:43Speaker 9: to the victims, but not at the cost of bailiff's
- 13:48Speaker 9: not doing some of the other things that bailiffs should
- 13:50Speaker 9: be doing today.
- 13:51Speaker 3: Is it prioritized? Do the victims get the money first
- 13:54Speaker 3: before I'm assuming it's the government or other agencies or
- 13:57Speaker 3: other victims are the non end of the victims.
- 14:01Speaker 9: So it's victims are heavily prioritized.
- 14:04Speaker 3: Okay, So one hundred million dollars is what we need,
- 14:07Speaker 3: and you're saying, go in and take it out of
- 14:09Speaker 3: their benefits, go in and take it out of their
- 14:11Speaker 3: pay whatever you need to do get the money.
- 14:14Speaker 9: Yes, absolutely, I just don't think that this is a
- 14:17Speaker 9: particularly good use of the human resource of using when
- 14:21Speaker 9: there's electronic ways of doing it. Using a human to
- 14:23Speaker 9: go out and scan number plates, there's lots of better
- 14:27Speaker 9: uses of our bailiff's time, and not using them to
- 14:31Speaker 9: do this kind of work just seems straight out like
- 14:35Speaker 9: this is a really good pr exercise and probably not
- 14:38Speaker 9: particularly focused on whether or not the victims are going
- 14:40Speaker 9: to be getting their money.
- 14:41Speaker 3: Back, walking around like parking wardens. Clear, good to have
- 14:43Speaker 3: you on the show this morning, Clear Buckley. Victims Advocate
- 14:46Speaker 3: time is twenty four minutes after five. I've got any
- 14:49Speaker 3: ideas out there? In New Zealand nine two nine two
- 14:51Speaker 3: the number to text was reading a paper last night.
- 14:54Speaker 3: Number jumped out and shopped me a little bit, and
- 14:56Speaker 3: I think it should well. I hope it would shock
- 14:58Speaker 3: you too, or in the right kind of way. And
- 15:03Speaker 3: I'll tell you what that number is next. News talks
- 15:05Speaker 3: HEB news talks HEB twenty seven after five. I was
- 15:07Speaker 3: reading a paper last night and a number jumped out
- 15:10Speaker 3: of me. A numbers shocked me, and I think it
- 15:11Speaker 3: should shock all of us. In the UK, they had
- 15:14Speaker 3: a government commissioned review looking at young people and why
- 15:18Speaker 3: they're not as active as generations that went before them.
- 15:22Speaker 3: Where's the go get them? Where's the whin the morning,
- 15:24Speaker 3: win the day? Where's the rattle your DAGs and make
- 15:26Speaker 3: it all happen attitude? That sort of thing. Britain basically
- 15:30Speaker 3: has the same problem New Zealand has, which is that
- 15:33Speaker 3: the same problem that most of the developed world has,
- 15:35Speaker 3: which is kids not in school, not in a job,
- 15:38Speaker 3: or not in any kind of training. Britain has a
- 15:41Speaker 3: million of them. We have a youth unemployment rate here
- 15:44Speaker 3: of about seventeen percent. That's near record. These aren't the
- 15:49Speaker 3: numbers that caught my eye. The UK Report had survey results.
- 15:54Speaker 3: Here's where it gets interesting. Twenty seven percent of Briton's
- 15:58Speaker 3: believed success depend mainly on work. Just twenty seven percent
- 16:03Speaker 3: half thought young people had fewer opportunities than generations that
- 16:08Speaker 3: went before them. The shocking part of this is that
- 16:11Speaker 3: people believe this and it's categorically untrue. You need not
- 16:16Speaker 3: go back too far into history to realize food was
- 16:19Speaker 3: hard to come by, work was what you made it,
- 16:21Speaker 3: and daily life was a struggle. Milk came straight from
- 16:26Speaker 3: a cow's teat and you had to actually milk it yourself.
- 16:30Speaker 3: I'm not saying the job market isn't tough at the moment,
- 16:33Speaker 3: no doubt it is. But the difference between those who
- 16:36Speaker 3: will succeed and those who won't is whether or not
- 16:40Speaker 3: they believe they can get there. That's attitude. And somewhere
- 16:44Speaker 3: along the way, now that milk lives in a fridge
- 16:47Speaker 3: and dinners are delivered by men on scooters, our attitudes
- 16:52Speaker 3: and motivations have gone a bit wayward. Ryan Bridge twenty
- 16:56Speaker 3: eight minutes after five on the baby. Why are we
- 17:01Speaker 3: not having enough babies? Ryan? Too many gays, that's why
- 17:04Speaker 3: not enough babies, says this text. No, that's not true. Actually,
- 17:08Speaker 3: the lesbians make up for the gays they have. Lesbians
- 17:12Speaker 3: have more babies than straight people combined because they got
- 17:15Speaker 3: two wombs and they just go for it and they want
- 17:19Speaker 3: a couple each. Honestly, they are more than doing the
- 17:22Speaker 3: work for the rest of us. Don't worry about that anyway.
- 17:25Speaker 3: The employers are worried about how many babies we're having,
- 17:28Speaker 3: we'll talk to them just before six this morning and
- 17:30Speaker 3: we're live to gather in the UK. Russia not happy
- 17:35Speaker 3: with Burnham. News Talks AB.
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- 18:05Speaker 3: News Talks that'd be got everything you need twenty far
- 18:13Speaker 3: away from six year on news Talks, they've been coming
- 18:14Speaker 3: up before the top of the r we'll talk to
- 18:16Speaker 3: employers who are worried about the birth rate. We'll go
- 18:18Speaker 3: to the UK. The British drones that have been used
- 18:21Speaker 3: in Russia angering the Kremlin. Some of your texts we
- 18:24Speaker 3: were talking just before about the fact today and if
- 18:26Speaker 3: you're one of those people with fines, court fines, and
- 18:28Speaker 3: you don't pay them, and you've got a car and
- 18:30Speaker 3: it's registered to your name, then look out because the
- 18:33Speaker 3: bailiffs are coming around New Zealand today and they are
- 18:36Speaker 3: doing a blitz and they're going to try and ping
- 18:39Speaker 3: you and get you, and that that's going to happen
- 18:41Speaker 3: for a few days. Anyway, we spoke to someone earlier
- 18:43Speaker 3: who said, probably not the best use of their time.
- 18:46Speaker 3: There's a lot of electronic ways you could do that
- 18:48Speaker 3: these days, and many of you have views this business,
- 18:52Speaker 3: says Marty says. By the way, the registered person for
- 18:55Speaker 3: any vehicle in New Zealand has nothing to do with
- 18:57Speaker 3: the ownership of the vehicle or indeed a legal title.
- 19:01Speaker 3: There is no register for who owns a vehicle. Marty,
- 19:05Speaker 3: thank you, but there is still somebody's name registered to it,
- 19:08Speaker 3: which I think is the point that our guess was making.
- 19:11Speaker 3: This person says, I usually don't get up early enough
- 19:13Speaker 3: for your show, but the dog needed to go for
- 19:15Speaker 3: a walk. I love text that start like this, good show,
- 19:17Speaker 3: punching in to the point on fines, raise the fine
- 19:21Speaker 3: and the consequences for false registration. Then have an amnesty
- 19:25Speaker 3: and negotiate. That's how you start this, that's how you
- 19:28Speaker 3: finish it. Twenty three away from sex Ran our reporters
- 19:32Speaker 3: call them in Dunedin Calum, good morning morning, Ryan. You've
- 19:34Speaker 3: got a big new hotel confirmed for central Dunedin.
- 19:38Speaker 10: Yeah, Distinction Hotels setting up another hotel in town. And
- 19:42Speaker 10: this one is a four and a half star, one
- 19:44Speaker 10: hundred and forty five room facility. It'll include a conference
- 19:48Speaker 10: center and it takes over an existing building, Philip Lang House,
- 19:53Speaker 10: and it's neighboring properties. That's at the corner of Princess
- 19:55Speaker 10: and Ratchrey Streets. For those that knows in Eden, it'll
- 19:58Speaker 10: become a Distinction's third host hotel in the city.
- 20:01Speaker 3: I Me Sophie Bark has delighted.
- 20:03Speaker 10: She says it's a strong vote of confidence in Dunedin's
- 20:06Speaker 10: visitor economy. She says, at peak times, you know, we
- 20:09Speaker 10: frequently hit near one hundred percent occupancy. So this has
- 20:13Speaker 10: long been needed, these additional rooms to support the tourism industry.
- 20:16Speaker 5: Ryan.
- 20:16Speaker 10: It's hoped it will be opened by the end of
- 20:18Speaker 10: twenty twenty eight.
- 20:19Speaker 3: It's great because you have a big concert and sometimes
- 20:22Speaker 3: they don't sail out, not because people don't want to
- 20:25Speaker 3: go because there's no this day.
- 20:27Speaker 10: Yeah, or we've had instances people saying as far away
- 20:29Speaker 10: as Muru or Bellcluther, so that'll solve that problem. Good stuff.
- 20:33Speaker 10: How's your weather morning shower or two partly cloudy? Southwesterly's
- 20:37Speaker 10: thirteen the heighth nice one.
- 20:38Speaker 3: Thank you Clais and christ this morning, Claire, good morning.
- 20:41Speaker 3: Airport gearing up for its big, biggest international summer yet.
- 20:45Speaker 11: Yeah, things just go from one level to the next.
- 20:48Speaker 11: For christ Juranche Airport. They've got more than one point
- 20:50Speaker 11: twenty seven million international seats available between November and March,
- 20:54Speaker 11: which will mean a twenty one percent increase on last summer.
- 20:58Speaker 11: This is due to the airlines adding some new long wrote.
- 21:00Speaker 11: We've got lots of new flights, lots of extended services.
- 21:03Speaker 11: That includes three new Air New Zealand routes to Perth,
- 21:06Speaker 11: Singapore and Tokyo. Those Air New Zealand flights alone add
- 21:09Speaker 11: a further ninety two thousand seats to our summer schedule.
- 21:12Speaker 11: Christ Church Airport Chief Executive Justin Watson says it's great
- 21:16Speaker 11: for travel obviously, but also every new flight brings people,
- 21:19Speaker 11: trade and opportunity to the South Island, while also providing
- 21:23Speaker 11: very important connections.
- 21:24Speaker 12: For our exporters.
- 21:25Speaker 3: How's your weather?
- 21:27Speaker 11: Cloudy and some occasional showers today, clearing in the afternoon.
- 21:30Speaker 11: Southwesterly is dying out. The high will be twelve.
- 21:32Speaker 3: Andrew de Claire, Max and Wellings and Hey Max, good morning.
- 21:35Speaker 3: You've got the sad news of a teacher killed in
- 21:38Speaker 3: Los Angeles and a car crash.
- 21:40Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 21:40Speaker 13: This is Gail Ives, a belove pe teacher at Wellington
- 21:44Speaker 13: Girls College, has been a teacher for almost forty years.
- 21:46Speaker 13: She has been on a lengthy, probably much deserved break overseas.
- 21:50Speaker 13: We over use the term trip of a lifetime, I think,
- 21:52Speaker 13: but this absolutely was six months around the world going
- 21:55Speaker 13: to major sporting events. Was out running just one day
- 21:59Speaker 13: in Los Angele and struck by a car. Her husband,
- 22:02Speaker 13: Richard says Girls College was Gail's first home. Student's current
- 22:05Speaker 13: informer have been sharing messages lovely, passionate about sport, quietly
- 22:10Speaker 13: spoken but strong in empathy. Seeing her running through Wellington,
- 22:13Speaker 13: stopping to talk to members of the school community, patient positive.
- 22:16Speaker 13: Dedicated service details for Gale are yet to be arranged.
- 22:20Speaker 3: It sounds like she was the lgent. Hey, how's your weather?
- 22:24Speaker 13: Cloudy periods with a few showers, strong southerly's ten good
- 22:27Speaker 13: on your Max.
- 22:27Speaker 3: Thank you morning, Neva, Good morning. Now Wayne Brown wants
- 22:30Speaker 3: you to tell him about how to fix traffic in Auckland. Well,
- 22:34Speaker 3: that's right.
- 22:35Speaker 12: He has launched a new campaign encouraging all the Aucklanders
- 22:39Speaker 12: you know, to identify keyword small, small, small roading issues
- 22:44Speaker 12: that could be fixed very quickly. So the council's obviously
- 22:47Speaker 12: going to gain powers over the city's roads. This is
- 22:49Speaker 12: from Aalkland Transport now that's happening October first. So Brown says,
- 22:54Speaker 12: you know Auckland is they regularly raise the same kinds
- 22:57Speaker 12: of transport issues that create frustration every day.
- 23:00Speaker 3: I've got one potholes. No, actually the potholes on my
- 23:04Speaker 3: street have been fixed.
- 23:05Speaker 2: I have.
- 23:06Speaker 3: But you know, when you're at the traffic lights, yes,
- 23:09Speaker 3: and there's a bus lane and so and so, there's
- 23:12Speaker 3: two lanes. You're you're just looking straight to head. There's
- 23:14Speaker 3: two lanes. One lane is full of cars, the other
- 23:17Speaker 3: lane is a bus lane. But you know they're only
- 23:19Speaker 3: on on certain hours, but no one knows what the
- 23:23Speaker 3: hours are. So you've got a lane sitting empty that
- 23:26Speaker 3: people could be using yes, but they're not because they think, oh,
- 23:29Speaker 3: I don't want to get penned in the bus lane, yeah,
- 23:31Speaker 3: or a T two lane or whatever. But then outside
- 23:34Speaker 3: the hours, so we need a flashing light that tells people, hey,
- 23:40Speaker 3: it's okay to use this bus lane.
- 23:41Speaker 12: Actually that's quite true, and especially for and I supposed
- 23:45Speaker 12: to outside of peak hours, because you know, when we're
- 23:47Speaker 12: going home and even around we're not like Hobson Street.
- 23:50Speaker 12: When I'm leaving, I'm thinking, oh, can I quickly work exactly?
- 23:53Speaker 12: And then I think, oh no, Neva, don't do it.
- 23:56Speaker 3: But you probably can because we're not in peak hour,
- 23:59Speaker 3: right right?
- 24:00Speaker 5: Yeah?
- 24:00Speaker 8: Oh good?
- 24:01Speaker 3: You should work for the councils. A genius idea is
- 24:04Speaker 3: a genius idea?
- 24:05Speaker 4: Should we put that too?
- 24:06Speaker 12: Hey, let's just record so someone. Let's just send this
- 24:09Speaker 12: audio Wayne, come on in it to Wayne.
- 24:11Speaker 3: Get it done.
- 24:12Speaker 12: He loves you, though, doesn't he?
- 24:13Speaker 3: How's that he's turning eighty on the weekend?
- 24:16Speaker 8: Shut up?
- 24:16Speaker 12: Are you going to his party?
- 24:17Speaker 3: I don't see that.
- 24:18Speaker 4: You didn't get an invite.
- 24:19Speaker 3: I didn't get an invite, but he said he said
- 24:21Speaker 3: he's got a quote s load of friends that are going.
- 24:25Speaker 12: What's he going to free them, sausage rolls, tomato sauce.
- 24:28Speaker 3: A bit of champage. Oh yeah, how's our weather?
- 24:30Speaker 5: Fine?
- 24:30Speaker 12: Fine, fine, I hope thirteen. Good day to be, you know,
- 24:33Speaker 12: like in the traffic and going in a bus la.
- 24:35Speaker 3: Do you think I think you risk it today? Never
- 24:37Speaker 3: give it a shock. Good to see you're seventeen away
- 24:40Speaker 3: from six news talks. They'd be We're in the UK next,
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- 25:51Speaker 3: But if a warning from the Kremlin from the Russians
- 25:53Speaker 3: for the UK over drones. Gavin Gray are UK europe correspondent,
- 25:56Speaker 3: Gavin Nice to have you on the show. What are
- 25:58Speaker 3: they saying?
- 26:00Speaker 14: Well, basically, Russia getting very very shall I say, somewhat
- 26:05Speaker 14: tetchy of how the supply from two British companies known
- 26:08Speaker 14: to have built drones that have been supplied to Kiev.
- 26:11Speaker 14: These are drones that have been used in attacks said
- 26:14Speaker 14: to have caused more than eighty billion New Zealand dollars
- 26:17Speaker 14: worth of economic damage in Russia. They're firing, of course
- 26:21Speaker 14: many more times from Ukraine into Russia, but they're also
- 26:24Speaker 14: going much deeper into Russia using the technology of these
- 26:27Speaker 14: British drones and Russia is saying there will be consequences
- 26:31Speaker 14: following confirmation the British made drones we used in these strikes,
- 26:35Speaker 14: saying that the deeper the involvement of the UK and
- 26:38Speaker 14: the conflict, the higher the price it will pay, saying
- 26:41Speaker 14: that Britain is deliberately opting for an escalation of the
- 26:45Speaker 14: Ukraine crisis. Well, the Ministry Defense and the British government saying, ah, well,
- 26:50Speaker 14: we stand shoulder to shoulder with Ukraine. Ukraine has been
- 26:54Speaker 14: invaded by Russia and we are standing to help them
- 26:57Speaker 14: in any way we can. Now, Russia, in the asked
- 27:00Speaker 14: has made these claims and made these threats against nations,
- 27:04Speaker 14: and so far nothing appears to have been done. Lots
- 27:07Speaker 14: of potentially finger pointing at Russian things. But yeah, plenty
- 27:11Speaker 14: of people in the UK are slightly concerned about what
- 27:13Speaker 14: this may mean.
- 27:14Speaker 3: Now let's go to this. We're hearing more and more
- 27:16Speaker 3: stories like this. But thirty children, most of them British,
- 27:20Speaker 3: feared to have been conceived by iv IF in Cyprus
- 27:24Speaker 3: but the wrong sperm or egg donor.
- 27:27Speaker 14: Yes, Now many people from the UK go to this part.
- 27:32Speaker 14: European laws do not recognize Northern Cyprus. It is recognized
- 27:37Speaker 14: legally by Turkey but nobody else, and the clinics there
- 27:40Speaker 14: are much more loosely regulated. They promise patients low prices,
- 27:45Speaker 14: much much lower round than here in the UK, with
- 27:48Speaker 14: high success rates and a wide choice of donors. Now
- 27:51Speaker 14: the problem is that up to thirty parents in the
- 27:54Speaker 14: UK are thinking, well, my child, while I do love them,
- 27:57Speaker 14: dearly from this particular process and treatment, looked nothing like
- 28:02Speaker 14: either me or the donor that we selected. Now, the
- 28:05Speaker 14: donors selected are basically anonymous, but obviously parents are have
- 28:09Speaker 14: access to the medical history, the appearance, the personality, the
- 28:13Speaker 14: education and the hobbies. And indeed, when some parents have
- 28:15Speaker 14: gone as far as to get their child DNA tested,
- 28:18Speaker 14: the DNA has shown that their genetics are based largely
- 28:21Speaker 14: on people from Turkey or neighboring countries. So that would
- 28:26Speaker 14: tend to allege that actually the sperm of the people
- 28:29Speaker 14: they've chosen is not the one They're getting it from
- 28:31Speaker 14: people who live much more locally than that. So many
- 28:34Speaker 14: people warning parents potential parents of the dangers of going
- 28:38Speaker 14: for this shall I say quick cheap fix.
- 28:41Speaker 3: In Northern cypress Mekevin Gray, are you're a correspondent? It
- 28:44Speaker 3: is eleven minutes away from six staying with babies. Birth
- 28:48Speaker 3: rate stats our natural population, that's birth minus death. The
- 28:52Speaker 3: growth rate the lowest since the nineteen forties, that's when
- 28:56Speaker 3: all the men were away fighting a world war. So
- 28:58Speaker 3: the replacement we need two point one. We are at
- 29:02Speaker 3: one point five and that's down from one point seven.
- 29:05Speaker 3: Alan McDonald m, a head of advocacy and strategy, joins
- 29:07Speaker 3: me this morning. Alan, Good morning, Ryan. Why is this
- 29:11Speaker 3: a problem for I mean not just for the country,
- 29:13Speaker 3: but for our workforce.
- 29:15Speaker 2: Well, you need to replenish your workforce and that's young people.
- 29:19Speaker 2: And obviously with that low birth rate, and it's been
- 29:23Speaker 2: well below two point one for quite some time. Now,
- 29:27Speaker 2: fifteen twenty years down the track, where are all our workers?
- 29:31Speaker 3: We won't need them because of AI. Right, No, that's
- 29:35Speaker 3: not true.
- 29:36Speaker 2: The thing with AI is that it's going to disrupt,
- 29:39Speaker 2: it's not going to replace. And that's true of just
- 29:41Speaker 2: about every major technicological in advance we've had. If you
- 29:45Speaker 2: go back to the steam engine and the laddelites, you
- 29:48Speaker 2: know who broke up machinery because they feared they would
- 29:50Speaker 2: lose jobs. But what will happen is that the workplace
- 29:55Speaker 2: will shift, but there'll be the interface between the technology
- 29:59Speaker 2: and people. We're still going to need to people.
- 30:01Speaker 3: And we've seen governments the world over try and tackle this.
- 30:04Speaker 3: China's trying, Japan's trying, Careers trying. Nothing seems to be working.
- 30:09Speaker 2: What do you do well, Despite what some political parties think,
- 30:15Speaker 2: we're probably going to have to go to the immigrant pool.
- 30:18Speaker 2: That's one thing. I mean, as you've noted, the incentive
- 30:21Speaker 2: kind of stuff doesn't work. They've tried it most recently
- 30:24Speaker 2: and Hungary. I think where you've got tax free if
- 30:27Speaker 2: you had three children and the birth rate actually dropped
- 30:30Speaker 2: and increased. So it's something that's recognized around the world.
- 30:34Speaker 2: And we have the second or third fastest aging population
- 30:37Speaker 2: in the world as well. So I think one of
- 30:40Speaker 2: the things we're going to have to look at is
- 30:42Speaker 2: retraining our older people to fill the gaps in the workforce.
- 30:46Speaker 2: In different areas further back down the chain.
- 30:50Speaker 3: They've even tried things weird things like in China they
- 30:53Speaker 3: increase the tax on contra septment, they increase the tax
- 30:56Speaker 3: on condoms as one way trying to fix this problem.
- 31:00Speaker 3: It didn't work well.
- 31:01Speaker 2: Winston's spoiling a baby bonus isn't he That's fine forty
- 31:06Speaker 2: five K if.
- 31:06Speaker 3: You've got three of them, Okay, retrain the older people
- 31:11Speaker 3: and bring in the migrants.
- 31:13Speaker 2: Well that's that's what's going to happen.
- 31:16Speaker 3: Otherwise, Yes, you will be right.
- 31:17Speaker 2: We're just going to have to use technology to replace things.
- 31:19Speaker 2: But that everything says that doesn't work either.
- 31:23Speaker 3: Allan McDonald am a head of advocacy research. It is
- 31:26Speaker 3: eight to six. You're on News Talks B nine two
- 31:29Speaker 3: nine two the number of the text. Mike is with you.
- 31:31Speaker 1: Next on your radio and online on iHeartRadio Belly Edition
- 31:36Speaker 1: with Ryan Bridge and Spark for Business Technology that Keeps
- 31:41Speaker 1: Business Moving.
- 31:41Speaker 3: News Talks B News Talks HEB at six to six
- 31:45Speaker 3: and Mike's in the studio. Mike, can I ask a question?
- 31:48Speaker 4: Yeah, what's the point of lowering the temperature and here
- 31:52Speaker 4: to freezing while you sit in your yet again? I
- 31:56Speaker 4: wearing it to death? Zara Camel special.
- 31:59Speaker 3: I've got two coats, Mike. One's Navy one's I've.
- 32:04Speaker 4: Never seen the Navy. All I see is the can't
- 32:05Speaker 4: wear the.
- 32:06Speaker 3: Navy about seventy percent of the time. All Right, you
- 32:08Speaker 3: only noticed the camel because you just saw it, because camel.
- 32:13Speaker 3: What's the point of wearing an Okay? Do you want
- 32:15Speaker 3: me to explain?
- 32:16Speaker 4: Okay, so this is the studio gets filmed, right? Or
- 32:20Speaker 4: do you look like a mess under your coat? Are
- 32:22Speaker 4: you wearing nothing under your coat? Are you wearing some
- 32:26Speaker 4: Tolleen number? It's just it's just all that shocking untired?
- 32:31Speaker 3: Does it is?
- 32:32Speaker 4: It's shocking?
- 32:33Speaker 3: So my nice iron clean shirts are waiting for me
- 32:36Speaker 3: after I leave here, right?
- 32:38Speaker 4: But in here is you just look like a mess?
- 32:42Speaker 4: Is that man made fabric in that shirt? Is that
- 32:45Speaker 4: the problem? Is that crimpling?
- 32:48Speaker 3: I don't know what it is?
- 32:49Speaker 4: When you touch it, do you spark up?
- 32:54Speaker 3: It doesn't look nice? Okay? And I've been told all
- 32:56Speaker 3: I've been told, Hey, maybe you should wear something a
- 32:59Speaker 3: little nice, sir.
- 33:01Speaker 4: How embarrassing? Who told you?
- 33:02Speaker 3: Who told you that?
- 33:03Speaker 4: Especially given the people around here and what they were?
- 33:05Speaker 3: But that is true, isn't it.
- 33:07Speaker 4: There's nothing worse than management who were appallingly dressed in
- 33:10Speaker 4: the first place telling you, well, you don't have to
- 33:13Speaker 4: look far at exactly name names, go on, No, I won't.
- 33:19Speaker 4: Walls and classrooms, walls and classrooms this morning, oh good barnyard,
- 33:23Speaker 4: millions of things when you were young enough. Did you
- 33:25Speaker 4: go open classroom?
- 33:26Speaker 11: No?
- 33:26Speaker 4: No, were you closed classroom at the special school? I
- 33:31Speaker 4: was in a cage that.
- 33:34Speaker 3: We did have cages.
- 33:35Speaker 4: Anyway, what I found fascinating about the special.
- 33:46Speaker 3: Are you drunk? Serious?
- 33:49Speaker 4: Oh? For goodness sake? What school did you go to
- 33:50Speaker 4: where they put you in the cage?
- 33:52Speaker 3: I wasn't in the cage.
- 33:53Speaker 4: Weren't you?
- 33:53Speaker 14: No?
- 33:54Speaker 7: No? No?
- 33:54Speaker 4: Did you visit the kids in cage?
- 33:56Speaker 3: We went aloud?
- 33:58Speaker 4: What were they kept in the dark? This is outrageous anyway,
- 34:03Speaker 4: So a couple of schools are putting walls up and
- 34:07Speaker 4: taking kids out of cagesn't somehow this has not gone
- 34:10Speaker 4: the way I thought it was going to. Anyway, take
- 34:12Speaker 4: your cheby self and get out of here.
- 34:16Speaker 3: I shall enjoy your Wednesday morning.
- 34:19Speaker 12: You just kill my text.
- 34:22Speaker 9: I revel hell Then.
- 34:30Speaker 1: For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge, listen live
- 34:33Speaker 1: to news Talks. It'd be from five am weekdays, or
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